Edited by Azizi PowellThis post showcases four examples of television programming that focus on the playground activity or the competitive sport of Double Dutch jump rope. These examples are a McDonalds commercial, a xbox 360 commercial, a segment of a Sesame Street television program, and an excerpt of the Disney channel movie Jump In!. Links to information and articles about Double Dutch Jump Rope are foound in the Related Links section below.The content of this post is presented for historical, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.All copyrights...
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
The Jazz Dance Truckin (Information & Video Examples)
Posted on 3:48 PM by Unknown
Edited by Azizi PowellThis post presents information about and film clips of the Jazz dance step known as "truckin". The content of this post is presented for historical, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.All copyrights remain with their owners.INFORMATION ABOUT "TRUCKIN" (DANCE) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Apple_(dance)#Moves"Truckin: Truckin is a shuffle step variation popularized after the vaudeville era. The right hand is held up (as in a right turn signal) with the index finger extended and wagging. In Harlem Truckin the shoulder...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Muhammad Muwakil - "4.00 am in Belmont" (Jamaican Spoken Word)
Posted on 4:31 PM by Unknown
Edited by Azizi PowellThis post showcases the Jamaican spoken word composition "4.00 am in Belmont" by Muhammad Muwakil.A video of Muhammad Muwakil sharing that composition and a transcription of that composition is found in this post. Excerpts from an online article on Muhammad Muwakil & selected comments from that video's YouTube comment thread are also included in this post.The content of this post is provided for historical, folkloric, motivational, and aesthetic purposes.All copyrights remain with their owners.****FEATURED VIDEO4.00 am...
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Jamaican Songs About The River Jordan (Part II)
Posted on 8:30 AM by Unknown
Edited by Azizi PowellThis post is Part II of a two part series that presents some information about, and a very small sample of Jamaican songs about the river Jordan. These posts also include transcriptions of those song lyrics when those lyrics aren't found online, or links to those song lyrics if those lyrics are already found online.Part II features four sound files of Jamaican songs about the river Jordan. The featured songs, posted in no particular order are Clancy Eccles with Hersang -"River Jordan", Burning Spear- "Jordan River", The Itals...
Jamaican Songs About The River Jordan (Part I)
Posted on 7:07 AM by Unknown
Edited by Azizi PowellThis post is Part I of a two part series that presents some information about, and a very small sample of Jamaican songs about the river Jordan. These posts also include transcriptions of those song lyrics when those lyrics aren't found online, or links to those song lyrics if those lyrics are already found online.Part I of this series also provides some information about the religious and folkloric significance of the Jordan river, as well as some information about the much older African American Spiritual "Roll River Roll".The...
Saturday, February 23, 2013
"Yonder Come My Jesus" (sung to the tune "Michael Row The Boat Ashore")
Posted on 10:12 AM by Unknown
Edited by Azizi PowellThis post presents three examples of the Gospel song "Yonder Come My Jesus". This song has the same tune & a somewhat similar pattern as the song "Michael Row The Boat Ashore". The only other reference that I've found online to this song is a line in Howard W. Odum's 1909 university dissertation "Religious Folk-Songs Of The Southern Negroes".http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39078/39078-h/39078-h.htm. That line "Oh yonder comes my Jesus, I know him by his shinin’" is given as line #13 in an 19 line excerpt of a "negro" religious...
Friday, February 22, 2013
West African Roots Of The Harlem Shake Shoulder Movements
Posted on 6:41 AM by Unknown
Edited by Azizi PowellSince the Harlem Shake video craze erupted on the internet in February 2013, there has been renewed interest in the origins of the Harlem Shake dance. The "real" Harlem Shake dance emphasizes rhythmic shoulder movements. This rhythmical dance is in stark contrast to the just-for-fun mish mash motions that mostly costumed people do in the recent Harlem Shake videos. The Ethiopian Eskista dance is often cited as the source for the "original" Harlem Shake of 1981, which was then popularized in 2001 by its inclusion in a number...
Thursday, February 21, 2013
The Staple Singers - I Know I Been Changed (sound file & lyrics)
Posted on 5:27 PM by Unknown
Edited by Azizi PowellThis post presents a sound file & lyrics for the song "I Know I've Been Changed" as sung by The Staple Singers. Information about The Staple Singers is also included in this post.The content of this post is presented for historical, religious, and aesthetic purposes.All copyrights remain with their owners.****INFORMATION ABOUT THE STAPLE SINGERSFrom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Staple_Singers"The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group. Roebuck "Pops" Staples (1914–2000), the patriarch...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Big Mama Thornton "One More River" (Sound File & Lyrics)
Posted on 8:53 PM by Unknown
Edited by Azizi PowellThis post presents a sound file & lyrics for the song "One More River" by Big Mama Thornton. Information about Big Mama Thornton is also included in this post.The content of this post is presented for historical, religious, and aesthetic purposes.All copyrights remain with their owners.****INFORMATION ABOUT BIG MAMA THORNTON From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mama_Thornton"Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984) was an American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record...
Good Hair & Bad Hair (Black Attitudes About Our Hair)
Posted on 12:40 PM by Unknown
Written by Azizi Powell"Having a bad hair day" means something different to Black females than it does to White females.I believe that at one time or another most African Americans have accepted mainstream White society's highly positive valuation of long, naturally straight hair or long, naturally curly hair over any other types of hair textures. When I was growing up in New Jersey in the 1950s no Black female even THOUGHT about wearing their hair in an afro. All the girls who I knew, including myself, wanted long, flowing hair. As part of our...
Monday, February 18, 2013
Langston Hughes - "Note on Commercial Theatre" (You've Taken My Blues And Gone)
Posted on 5:15 PM by Unknown
Edited by Azizi PowellThis post presents a sound file of & words to Langston Hughes poem "Notes On Commercial Theatre". This post also includes an excerpt of a Wikipedia analysis of that poem, and my analysis of that poem which includes comments about the 2013 internet video craze "The Harlem Shake".The content of this post is presented for historical, sociological, and aesthetic purposes.All copyrights remain with their owners.****FEATURED SOUND FILE: LANGSTON HUGHES POETRY RECITAL c.1945 Part 4 of 4 cdbpdx,Uploaded on Jul 19, 2009 In 1945,...
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